hacking

hacking

hacking

1. Present participle of hack.

hacking (uncountable)

1. (computing) Playful solving of technical work that requires deep understanding, especially of a computer system.

   From hacker: ""A person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the internal workings of a system, computers and computer networks in particular."" — RFC 1392

2. (computing) Unauthorized attempts to bypass the security mechanisms of an information system or network. See also cracker.
3. (pathology) A dry coughing; the emission of a succession of short coughs.
4. (sports, chiefly American football, soccer, rugby) A kick in the shins.
5. (massage) The act of striking the muscles with the side of the hand.
6. (UK, countable) A riding or journey on horseback. (Plural hackings.)
7. (obsolete) The operation of working over the faces of rough or worn grindstones with a hack-hammer.
8. (obsolete, masonry) The separation of a course of stones into two smaller courses, when there are not enough large stones to form a single course.
9. (obsolete, gem-cutting) The cuts and grooves made in the metal laps by holding the cutting edge of a steel blade against them while in motion, for the purpose of providing receptacles or pockets for the powders using in cutting and polishing gems.
10. (obsolete, brick-making) The piling of bricks for drying.

hacking (comparative more hacking, superlative most hacking)

1. Short and interrupted, broken, jerky; hacky.

   A hacking cough. A hacking laugh. A hacking breath. A hacking cry.

   A more hacking and harrowing cough I have never heard.

   Anise will diminish the most hacking cough to where it is no longer irritating.

   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XX:

     “So now everythings fine.” I uttered a hacking laugh. “No,” I said, in answer to a query from Aunt Dahlia. “I have not accidentally swallowed my tonsils, I was merely laughing hackingly. Ironical that the young blister should say that everything is fine, for at this very moment disaster stares us in the eyeball.”

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Altri significati:

(obsolete, gem-cutting) The cuts and grooves made in the metal laps by holding the cutting edge of a steel blade against them while in motion, for the purpose of providing receptacles or pockets for the powders using in cutting and polishing gems.

(computing) Unauthorized attempts to bypass the security mechanisms of an information system or network.

(obsolete, masonry) The separation of a course of stones into two smaller courses, when there are not enough large stones to form a single course.

(massage) The act of striking the muscles with the side of the hand.

(UK, countable) A riding or journey on horseback. (Plural hackings.)

(pathology) A dry coughing; the emission of a succession of short coughs.

Being in the process to gain unauthorized access to a computer system.

(obsolete) The operation of working over the faces of rough or worn grindstones with a hack-hammer.

Present participle of hack.

(sports, chiefly American football, soccer, rugby) A kick in the shins.

(obsolete, brick-making) The piling of bricks for drying.

Short and interrupted, broken, jerky; hacky.

Being in the process to accomplish a difficult programming task.

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